Today's Entrepreneur: Tomio Daumit
No. 1 Mistake: Giving up and not believing in oneself
Today's Entrepreneur is Tomio Daumit, Co-founder of Digital Medical. Hospitals and ambulatory centers lose an average of $330 million per month in revenue, due to lost surgical equipment. There is also an average of 9 million surgical procedures cancelled each year due to scheduling errors, costing $225 billlion in revenue, that's where Digital Medical comes in. Digital Medical developed a platform that streamlines the process, allowing facilities to alert vendors of upcoming surgical cases, reduce scheduling errors and missed case deliveries, track equipment throughout the delivery, sterilization, and surgical process, and reduce lost equipment penalties and accountability errors.
Daumit is a dedicated entrepreneur, techie, nerd and avid winter sports enthusiast. His first exposure in healthcare was in 2004 at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, where he interned in the marketing and design department. He is a Fine Arts graduate.
Digital Medical self-categorizes in these areas: Health Tracking Tools Healthcare Healthtech Mobile health Data analytics.
Here's a little about Daumit:
Achievements (products built, personal awards won): Digital Medical (which we officially launched in 2014)
If you are an entrepreneur, why? I want to be my own boss, and be in control.
My favorite startups: M3D and DJI
What's most frustrating and rewarding about entrepreneurship/innovation? Being an entrepreneur can be one of the most rewarding and frustrating thing someone can do. When you succeed at what you are creating, the sense of pride and accomplishment is amazing. However, getting there is a struggle. One of the hardest things is relying on others to do things for you.
What's the No. 1 mistake entrepreneurs make? The no. 1 mistake entrepreneurs can make is giving up and not believing in themselves or what they are doing.
What are the top three lessons you've learned as an entrepreneur?
1. Listen to your advisors. They are there for a reason.
2. Fake it until you make it
3. Learn to love Top Ramen
My first exposure to healthcare was in 2004 at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, where I interned in the marketing and design department. I moved to Rio de Janeiro in 2005 and started a consulting firm, which provided expertise in project management, project planning, international business development, technical consulting and related expertise to a wide variety of clients in the United States and Brazil.
In 2013, Matthew Nicholson and started developing the idea for Digital Medical, and today I am the proud co-founder of a HealthIT startup.
Digital Medical. is competing in the Splash Health. The top twelve of the competition will compete live on stage at Splash Health on Feb. 23 at Kaiser Center, Oakland. Register here.
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Hospitals and ambulatory centers lose an average of $330 million per month in revenue, due to lost surgical equipment. There is also an average of 9 million surgical procedures cancelled each year due to scheduling errors, costing $225 billlion in revenue. The scary part is that the majority of these facilities still utilize archaic methods, such as pen and paper, to track their valuable equipment.
We realized that the problems in these facilities could be solved using modern technology. Therefore we developed a platform that streamlines the process, allowing facilities to alert vendors of upcoming surgical cases, reduce scheduling errors and missed case deliveries, track equipment throughout the delivery, sterilization, and surgical process, and reduce lost equipment penalties and accountability errors.
Tomio Daumit
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My first exposure to healthcare was in 2004 at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, where I interned in the marketing and design department. I am now the co-founder of the Health IT startup, Digital Medical.